Dating Anniverseries?

Jordyana · February 2011

I just found out via Facebook that my friend is going on a short trip for her 6 month anniversary with her BF. It got me thinking....FI and I have never really celebrated our anniversaries...At least not in any extravagant way. I'm pretty sure for our 5th year (this past fall) we just spent a normal day together and said, "Happy anniversary!"

It's not that we're not romantic. I guess it's just never been a huge deal for us and we're the kind of people who are perfectly happy staying home, watching TV while snuggled up together. Funny story, though. On our first anniversary, one of my good friends was coming into town for one day (he lives about 3 hours away) and I asked FI if I could hang out with him even though it was our one year. FI said it was fine and never caused a scene about it. But he still pokes fun at me to this day that I "spent our one year anniversary with another man!" =p

So.....Do you and your S/O celebrate anniversaries? If so, how?

DanieKA · February 2011

We don't. Until recently I had no idea when our actual anniversary was. Seriously, I could not remember the actual calendar date of our first date. I remember exactly where we went, what we ate, what I wore...I even remember what he wore. I know it was in late January. I just don't know the day.

So, um...no. We don't celebrate our anniversary in a big way. But we are big on birthdays, so I don't miss additional celebrations.

I actually asked my married friends this. None of them got married on their "dating anniversary" date, so does that day just go out the window for the wedding date? Most said they don't do anything per se, but they might verbally acknowledge it. Like, "hey this is the day of our first date. Let's do it!" But otherwise, the anniversary you had when you were dating just sort of goes away.

deburnin · February 2011

For the past two years we've gone on a mini-getaway to Niagara Falls. For our first anniversary we reenacted our first date (ordered Chinese food and watched the movie version of Phantom of the Opera). For the years between those we ordered Chinese food and watched a movie (and sometimes got each other gifts/cards).

I have to say that the mini-getaway has become my favorite way to celebrate. It's nice to get away from the stress of everything and just splurge on ourselves (and our relationship) for two days.

bethsmiles · February 2011

We celebrate it, but never on the same day, just whatever day is most convenient at the end of September. We're not sure when we officially started dating or what our first day was so we don't have anything to go off of for an actual date. We don't do anything big but with school and everything else we get so busy that its nice to have a day to remember to enjoy being together.

CASK85 · February 2011

Yes we do. For our 1st anniversary we went to a fancy dinner and then had cocktails on the 95th floor of the Hancock tower in Chicago. Our 2nd anniversary we went to the Field museum, ring shopping (totally on a whim, or at least I thought so), and then to dinner. By our next anniversary we'll be newly married. . . but I think we'll probably still celebrate.

artbyallie · February 2011

My parents actually got married on their 5th dating anniversary, so... yeah. Heh. We will be getting married at around 5 and a half years, so Fiancé still wants to celebrate our dating anniversary because it will be roughly 6 months apart from the wedding one.

AudgiePodge · February 2011

We celebrated our year anniversary with a 3 night stay at a hotel in town and an engagement. Once we're married, we won't be celebrating our dating anniversary.

stemms8810 · February 2011

So far we just send each other a text while at work saying Happy Anniversary! For our 6 month anniversary though I got him a card and a little photo album with pictures of us since we met. He had flowers sent to me at work. The next big one we will celebrate will be our one year anniversary most likely. So I would say we don't go over the top or anything.

PaigeMcC · February 2011

We go to dinner around the date. Last year we celebrated by going away for the weekend and getting engagaed.

That's about it, though.

zipis1 · February 2011

We do. We take any excuse we can get to celebrate/go out/drink/whatever. :P Though we only celebrate anniversaries, not monthiversaries.

Once we're married I imagine we still celebrate our dating anniversary. Probably not a big to-do celebration, but we'd do something.

AbigailMS · February 2011

Usually SO does something really sweet, this past year I honestly forgot about it, because I was working and we'd just moved like 4 hours away from family as well as moved in with each other. He surprised me with a tiffany's ring, a coach bracelet, and some swarovski headphones. I was very surprised. Normally we just go on a date.

SKP82 · February 2011

Our dating anniversary is New Year's Eve, so yeah, we celebrate!

Every year that we've been able to spend it together so far, we have been out of town for Christmas and then go somewhere else for New Year's (Asheville, Boston, etc). Since it's so close to Christmas, we don't give gifts.

SenoritaCupcake · February 2011

We celebrate every month because we’re dorky like that. We call them our MESaversaries (it’s Spanish for month). Nothing extravagant, it’s really just one day a month to make sure we focus on our awesomeness as a couple and appreciate having each other in our lives. We want to keep up the tradition by marrying on the 14^th. I doesn’t have to be the same month, we would just love to keep the 14^th as our day together.

Ember01 · February 2011

We typically will say something about it on the date that we first met. Our official dating anniversary is on my birthday, so we end up celebrating my birthday, anniversary, and Sweetest day all together. He either makes a nice meal or we go out. Nothing real special, just a nice evening.

cu97tiger · February 2011

We usually acknowledge the date (June 19) but don't do gifts or anything. We usually just go out to dinner or something like that. To be honest, he doesn't remember the date, so I have to remind him a few weeks before. He says he doesn't like to celebrate dating anniversaries but he's totally down for celebrating wedding anniversaries. I told him I think it's a good idea for us to remember when we started dating and celebrate that awesome day (the best day of my life, to this point!)

futuremrstje · February 2011

W celebrated our 6 month anniversary. There was a wine tasting at a local wine store and we went to that and drank a lot of really yummy wine, then went out for dinner. We were supposed to go out to the bar after but I had a wee bit too much at the wine tasting and didn't end up going. I think we exchanged little gifts too, but I can't remember. For our 1 year I can't remember what we did but he got me a really pretty necklace and earrings from the swarovski store and I got him a painting of a bunch of guys peeing. I know romantic, eh? Actually it's a painting he said he wanted. Our local football team has a trough in the men's bathroom and the painting is of a bunch of guys standing at the trough peeing wearing jerseys of some of the famous players. He really wanted it but said he couldn't justify spending that much money on it. So I bought it for him. It's hanging up next to the bathroom downstairs.

niknik15 · February 2011

Well our first date was on St Patricks day, so we usually do go out and do something.

I was looking at maybe making that our wedding date time frame too, but then I found out that my dad and mom got married on St Pattys day. That was a total shocker to me. They got divorced a long time ago, but it still seems a little too weird for me.

heyimbren · February 2011

We don't celebrate our anniversary. We both sort of acknowledge it, like "oh hey, we've been dating for x length of time now". We're both happy with that, we'll save that for later.

skyler1108 · February 2011

We usually just go out for a dinner and a movie. This year we will celebrating by getting married. We usually do not buy each other gifts or anything like that.

bourgehm · February 2011

We do. Normally nothing too much. This year we had a bottle of wine and FI made a nice dinner and we waatched a movie. Stuff like that. We don't really go on big vacations or anything. We do get eachother little presents sometimes though.

alanna91 · February 2011

This year's anniversary, which was last month, we went to Niagara Falls (Ontario) for a few nights. We didn't go just for our anniversary though, it was Winter Break and we really wanted to go to Canada anyway.

Some girl once said "Why would you celebrate staying with someone? It's like...'Wow, I didn't think we'd make it this far...let's celebrate' "

I don't know if I completely agree, but I see where she's coming from.

caitlin.cave · February 2011

I've always thought it's kind of hysterical when people are like "OMGeeeeez! We've been dating for a whole week! Let's go out to dinner at the most expensive place we can find and buy each other commemorative mugs and have tshirts made!"

We just sort of say "Hey' we've been together x months now. Cool." We do try to make a point of hanging out with each other on that day because it helps us not to get so busy that we never see each other. On our year anniversary we'll probably go out to eat or something.

leia1979 · February 2011

Our first year we went out to a fancy dinner and dancing. Our second anniversary, we went on a trip to Hearst Castle and the beach.

I had a coworker once who said it was stupid to celebrate dating anniversaries. Maybe he got married before they made it to one year of dating, who knows. I think it's worth marking an annual milestone if you want.

After we're married, we'll probably just stick to the wedding anniversary.

mellimel19 · February 2011

We celebrate our anniversaries. For the last few years, we decided to stop getting gifts for each other and instead, each of us plans a night out, which usually consists of dinner and some kind of show. We've gone to see Wicked, Cirque D'Soleil, Blue Man Group, and some others. It's a nice opportunity for us to spend money we would normally be hesitant to spend on an expensive show that we've wanted to see. This year or next year I plan to surprise FI with ballroom dancing lessons, which should be fun and will hopefully make us less awkward dancers for our wedding!

[Deleted User] · February 2011

In previous relationships we used to celebrate yearly dating anniversaries. So far, BF & I haven't really celebrated. Our 1 year was 12/6 and he was in VA. We said "Happy Anniversary" and that was about it. OP, we're like you, we prefer to spend time together at home...

Wrkn925 · February 2011

We consider out anniversary the day we went on our first date.

To celebrate, we went out to dinner last year. Nothing extravagant, just to acknowledge the occasion.

Our two year anniversary is coming up in April, I don't know if we'll do anything then.

orangecrush32 · February 2011

We normally get each other something small and spend time together. It has yet to be on our actual anniversary thought because we're in an LDR and our anniversary has been in the middle of the week. We celebrate the weekend after and just spend time together. Maybe go out to dinner. Nowhere fancy though.

PolackMcGee · February 2011

We've never been the romantic/sentimental types, so we didn't start celebrating our dating anniversary until a few years ago. I'm pretty sure the first time we celebrated it was right after our December graduation from college. We were packing up our apartment and getting ready to move "home" (from the state we went to college in to the state our families live in), and we felt that the combination of our 5th anniversary and getting ready to leave the best four years of our lives behind us necessitated something special, so we scraped together what little money we had left over from re-selling our textbooks and bought ice cream shakes at Dunkin' Donuts and went home to watch the movie we saw on our first date - "Dude, Where's My Car?".

We still get Dunkin' Donuts shakes and watch "Dude, Where's My Car?" on our anniversary (or the nearest Friday to it), but we've also added a big sushi dinner and a bottle of Jack Daniel's to the celebration.

We will be getting married on our (12th!) dating anniversary (December 15, 2012), which I'm really thrilled about. At first we considered having a fall wedding in 2011, and we agreed that our dating anniversary would still be our *real* anniversary, and our wedding anniversary would be more like "Hey, remember that time we threw a big party?".

loves2shop4shoes · February 2011

We never celebrate month anniversaries, just years. I know people that celebrate their anniversaries MONTHLY...like "Happy 28 months!" I just think that's bizarre... along the lines of celebrating Victory Over Japan Day.

On our anniversary, we go out to dinner and exchange cards. Sometimes we'll exchange gifts too. One year I got FI a Gucci messenger bag for work...he really liked that.

ravenray · February 2011

We celebrate. For us we don't really go on any dates outside our yearly dates...haha. So we go to dinner and maybe rent a movie or something. We aren't very exciting! We don't really do monthiversaries... we just say happy anniversary! And go on our merry way.

My friend when she started dating her BF would go on and onn about all the stuff he got her each month, it was really odd for me because my BF didn't and I was like well that is stupid anyways! lol. We do get each other gifts sometimes. I just can't remember what they are! lol.

DanieKA · February 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_dating-anniverseries?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:136Discussion:64856eff-0fbe-48b2-964b-1e76c3531964Post:d4ddf101-49d8-419a-af48-a4e9354fd65d">Re: Dating Anniverseries?</a>:
[QUOTE]I've always thought it's kind of hysterical when people are like "OMGeeeeez! We've been dating for a whole week! Let's go out to dinner at the most expensive place we can find and buy each other commemorative mugs and have tshirts made!"
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